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m MIST Official Organ Ordinary. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WINDER. PUBLISHED BVgKY THURSDAY KVKNIWfI JEFFERSON OFFICE J With the Ordinary in the Court Hous e p. W. Qnattlebaum will represent the paper and take subscriptions. Subscription P.ates* Y EAR, - - - *■<*> A. G. LAMAR, . . Editor and Publisher. THURSDA I SEPTEMBER 20.1900. 4 People’s Party Ticket. For'President — WHARTON BARKER. For Vice-President— lON ATIUS DONNELLY. POPULIST STATE TICKET. For Governor —J. H. TRAYLOR, .of Troup. For Secretary of State—Dr. L. L. CLEMENTS, of Milton. For Attorney General —F. H. SAF FOLD, of Emanuel. For Comptroller General —J. T. HOL BROOK, of Franklin. For State Treasurer—J. W. PARK, of Meriwether. For Commissioner of Agriculture A. H. TALLY, of Cobb.j For State School Commissioner—W. T. FLINT, of Taliaferro. For Prison Comissioners — T ’.i J. DICKEY, of Upson, and S. C. McCAN DLEBS, of Butts. For State Senator, M. D. IRWIN. For Representatives, Dr. L C. ALLEN, J. H. BOGGS. For Ordinary, G. D. BENNETT. For Clerk and Treasurer, A. G. LAMAR. For Sheriff, •R M. PATRICK. Deputy‘sheriff. W. C. PITTMAN. For Tax Collector, C. F. HOLLIDAY. For Tax Receiver, J. M ROSS. For Surveyor, S. W. JACKSON, Jr. For Coroner, T. N. HIGHFELL. Every man should vote as a free mau and not put his vote-up for sale. Col. M. D. Irwin will c.rry Banks county by large majority as Senator from this district. He will carry Jack son county the same way. He will make one of the be9t and most useful senators in the next Georgia legisla ture. We hope this campaign will close without ary false reports being circu lated on any of the candidates. If you have any charge to bring against any one running, be manly enough to circu late it openly and in time for him to meet it Don’t slip around in the dark and try to defeat a candidate by unfair means or falsly misrepresenting him. Such means are contemptible to all de cent people. An Interesting Table. The following table show? very clear ly and the point what the men w T ho produce the wealth get and what the other fellow gets who does not produce it’ Read and think over it seriously. It is worth the consideration of every true man as well as all statesmen: Table showing how the wealth of the possessing class increases as the work ers get less of what they produce: Per cent of Per cent of wealth produced wealth produced paid as wages. taken as profits. 1850 6214 87*4 1860 43% "66,14 1870 82% 67% 1880 24 76 1890 17 83 Winder’s Trade. There ia no place in Georgia that has grown more rapidly as a business cen ter than Winder. Every line of busi ness has prospered here and it has be come noted as one of the beat cotton markets in all this sectton of Georgia. The farmers have patronized the mer chants and cotton men and have shown & friendly spirit to every enterprise that has been inaugurated here by their patronage and cubsoribing liberal ly to help make these enterprises a suc cess. A large majority of these farm ers have been in acoord with the policy of Thk Economist, and its warm sup- porters. We, therefore, feel that we have been partially instrumental in the upbuild ing and prosperity of our .own and sec tion through the aid and support of our friends and patrons. The subscribers to The Economist have all thought .veil of Winder and felt an interest in its growth because the business men here have shown a liberal spirit toward us and respected men who honestly dif fered with them. They have not driv en these farmers away from Winder by being extremely partisan. The best of feeling exists here be tween Popnlists and Democrats, and we number some of the leading busi ness men of Winder among our warm supporters in the coming campaign. We are proud of this fact because we feel a deep interest in the devalopment and prosperity of onr town and county, and we know eiery iran who is a can didate of our party feels the same way. We want above all things to see an hon orable oontest in Jackson county. There is no need of bitterness and strife. We all are friends and can be of mutual benefit to one another. There is no necessity of going to extreems and stooping to means that are little and unmanly. No good citizens will sell his vote. The election comes off on Wednesday, 8d day of October. Tell your neighbors about it and don’t forget the date. Every man should go out and vote. When the trusts gets perfected, and chey are rapidly being perfected, they will einoloy all the people who get em ployment and will sell to all people any hing they can buy. It will resolve itself into something like this: One man em ploys all the people; the people oan buy only from their employer and only the amount he pays them injwages, He can get from them only the money he pays them in wages—no.more, for they wi’l have nothing more. He can charge them what he pleases for the goods they make and pay them what he pleases for wages, That will be ideal freedom, for yon! It matters not whether the employer be one person or thousand, the effect on the workers will be the same. Are you go ing to wait until this condition has ar rived and the chains of industrial slav ery shall have been solidly rivited before you will think of some remedy?—Appeal to Reason. At Cleveland Ohio, was married a man and woman on the 7th of last month The gifts from the man to the woman in diamonds, pearls and other childish gewgaws cost half a million. The pay for these tinsels, these things of ostentation and ignorance, was squeezed out of working people in the shape of profits. Would the world not be brighter aud happier if the sacrifices of the workers were put to some useful purpose—something that the workers could enjoy? Now miud I am not wrathy at the man and woman—they were only using in their ignorant, childish way what the workers willingly permit themselves to be squeezed out of. The fanlt lies with deeper ignorance of the workers who fail to see the injustice when they are the victims of the system of private ownership of capital. That those who profit by the system do not study the right or wrong of it is not to be wondered at, but men and women who suffer by it—they should at least be expected to study the reasons the workers are always poor while those who do not perform any useful labor are wealthy. But when someone with a fiuer sense of justice appeals to the workers to read and think, the workers at once look upon him as an enemy and make life a struggle and a bane to him. —Appeal to Reason. Where Are We Drifting. "The Standard Oil company secured the appointment of one of its men, Charles Miller, as major general of the Pennsylvania National Gnard, over the heads of officers of higher rank. It is the policy of the Standard Oi company to control the militia of the United States to protect Its un lawful enterprise," said George Rice, an oil refiner driven out of business by the Standard Oil company, in an interview in the New York Journal, Ang. 29. Fat oity men, reading this in their big arm chairs, will grimace and say, ‘pooh," throwing this paper on the floor. It was done by fat city men in France only five years before the head of stolid Lords fell leaden to the ground amidst the demoniac shouts of the French peasantry. They had been telling the workers in the fields and factories, year iu and year out, that opportunity was to the man of mind and will to Beiza it; that men, by birth and fortune, always would be unequal; that some must be poor and some must be rich, just as nature had built the mountain peak and the lowly hillock. The peasant believed it until he walked, his stomach grinding against each other like millstones, by the win dow of the king and saw him wash down the rich, slow bolus with golden wine. "Bread!" cried the man at the win dow. The king’s man lifted the sash and tossed out a bright riband saying, "A present from the king." The peasant snatched the thing np. A legend was embossed in gold, say ing: "The king can do no wrong.” So the priest and philosopher had written it always. It had been wrought out of the wisdom of ages. It must be so. "But there he is eating," said the peasant, "and here I am starving. No more philosophy for me. I am going to eat." In a few years all the peasants in France were eating—but the king was dead. This is the proposition you aro thus made ready to hear. “Those seeking to distroy freedom’s army.” Caesar wished no honor save to com mand his soldiers. He aided the repub lic of Rome. Napoleon was not emper or until he had been general-in-chief. The emperor of Germany today would surrender all title, honor and property, in the name of liberty or any other n ame rather than give up the chiefship of the Prussian legions. Hardly credible is the truth that the stauding army of the United States— -100,000 strong—could decide the fate of this republic. Daesar crossed the Rubi con with fewer 'j.en. Sixty thousand Europeans have chased the empress of 400,000,000 Chinamen off her throne. Nations wager their liberties on the turn of a battle and 100,000 men make a terrible contest. How few fighting men have changed the destines of the world. —Populist Journal. Oak Trees; Care of Forests. li'By Mrs. W. H. Felton. In Atlanta Journal. There has been immense waste of fine timber in this southern country— perhaps equally as great in‘ the north and west when the land was first cleared —but. I oan myself recollect when land was being cleared and the wood was then all burned, the great oaks and smaller ones in what was called “log heaps,” A “log-rolling” was as com mon as a “corn shucking” or a “house raising.” In later years the waste of pine tim ber in lower Georgia sickens one to see and remember. It looks like van dalism. Where small slim pines have been tapped for turpentine there is al ways enough rosin left on the tree to be easily ignited when the dry grass catch a fire. Then these trees burn so nearly in two that they fall on the earth and rot if not entirely burned up. On our journey to the State Agricul tural society at Dublin, we saw dozens of immense timbers, long and perfect, laid near the line of railroad. They had been roughly hewn out and I was told they were rafted to Brunswick; or, per haps, carried by rail, where they were shipped to foreign countries to make masts for vessels. I looked regretfully at these giants of the forest thus laid low, aud I knew they 1 would never be replaced ou the soil where Winder Foundry and Hachine Works Is One Of The New Enterprises Of The Growing City Of Winder. This isone of the best equipped Machine and Foundry Works in the state and is prepared to do all kinds of work, such as building and repairing of ENGINES, BOILERS, SAW and SYRUP MILLS, GINS and ail kinds of Mackinery. Orders will be attended to promptly and all work guaranteed, Send your work to us and we will give you satis faction. Winder Foundry AND Machine Works. they had been growing sinoe primeval earth had begun to apront acorns or young pines. Bat it is especially sad to see an oak which has been growing in the home place for time unknown—maybe hundreds of years—cut down and dis tryed wantonly in this era of onr his tory. The old song, "Woodman, Spare That Tree." has alway been a touch ing appeal to the human heart wherever read. There is silent dignity and majesty in the noble oak which looks down on the pigmy at its base and bears its own death and mutilation without com plaint. This silent witness of storms, raging elements, earthquakes, wars, downfalls of nations, upheaval oi kings and king doms, death and decay, has stood unmov ed and watched the remorseless stream of time carry whole generations to the tomb. Spreading its giant limbs on every side of the countless birds of the air made safe homes in the leafy brunches. The little blossoms at its base were sheltered from the strong sun light and the frailest fern spread its tiniest fond in tender beauty and grace. In all its noble life the mammoth tree had been a benefactor to the great and small of animate life within its reach. Not a single note of evil ever distorted its whisper ing.-, in breez9 or gale; never in storm or shade had it failed to welcome the passer- by. Overlooking the earth in majestic strength, it only nodded its head in sym pathy with its comrades of hill and dale as the winter winds swept through its branches with domoniac fury and cased each limb with an icy shield of sleet and frost. As the springtime came, with soft airs and gentle showers, these monarchs of the forest hastened to bud and leaf in gracious rivalry with the smaller shrub and bush. i Content to stand in its place of strength with grandeur and dignity, the giant oak continued to send its root lets deeper and deeper into mother earth and its veins were thrilled with annual springtime eagerness as the sap started on its way to every twig and nascent bud of its vast anatomy. Pa tient, beautiful, noble in purpose and effort, this grand old oak falls before the axe, aud perhaps the owner of the axe gives not a single thought of this continous growth of centuries, the beautiful symmetry of trunk and limb, the delicacy of bud and leaf, the marvel ous precision of wood and fiber, and the monarch of the forest soon lies prone upon the earth, bereft of life aud liber* ty, doomed to death aud decay forever more. “Oh! woodman, spare that tree!” Eugene Torres is a section hand at Redlands, Cal., living in a shanty not fit for a rich man’s dog, close to the tracts, of course, in the lowest, cheap est part of any city. His chiid was killed by a train. He was denied the right to sue the company, or even try the case to see if the company had neen negligent, because he had not $5 with which to pay his share of the fees of the court stenographer! And justice is free to all in liberty-loving man’s country! Let’s all yell for expanding the benefi cent laws over other people!—Ex. National Platform. The People’s Party of the United States, assembled in national conven tion this tenth day of May, 1800, affirm ing onr unshokon belief in the cardinal tenets oj the People’s Party, as setforth in Omaha platform, and pledging our selves anew to continued advocacy of those grand principles of human liberty until right shall triumph over might and love over greed, do adopt and pro claim this declaration of faith: First—We demand the initiative and referendum and the imperative man date for such changes of existing fun damental and statute law as will ena able the people in their sovereign ca pacity to propose and compel the enact ment of such laws as they desire; to re ject such as they deem injurious to their interests and to recall unfaithful publio servants. Second—We demand the public own* ership and operation of those means of communication, transportation and pro duction which the people may elect, such as railroads, telegraph and tele phone lines, coal mines, eto. Third—The land, including all natur all sources of wealth, is heritage of the people, and should not be monopolized for speculative purposes, and alien own ership of land should be prohibited. All land now held by railroads and other corporations in excess of their actual needs, and all lands now owned by aliens should be reclaimed by the Gov ernment. and held for actual settlers only. Fourth—A scientific and absolute pa per money, based upon the entire wealth and population of the nation not redeemable in any specific commodity, but made a full legal tender for all debts and receivable for all taxes and publio dues and issued by the Government only without the intervention of banks, and in sufficient quantity to meet the demand of commerce, is the best cur rency that oan be devised; but until such a financial system is secured, which we shall press for adoption, we favor the and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at the legal ratio of 16 to 1. Fifth—We demand the levy and col lection of a graduated tax on incomes and inheritances and a constitutional amendment to secure the same, if nec essary. Sixth—We demand the election of President, Vice President, Federal judges and United States senators by direct vote of the people. Seventh—We are opposed to trusts and declare the contention between the old parties on the monopoly question is a sham battle and that no solution of this mighty problem is possible without the adoption of the principles of publio ownership of public utilities. QUESTION ANSWERED. Ye3, August Flower still has the largest sale of any medicine in the civ ilized world, Your mothers’ and grand mothers’ never thought of using any thing else for Indigestion or Biliousness. Doctors were scarce, and they seldom heard of Appendicitis, Nervous Prostra tion or Heart failure, etc. They used August Flower to clean oat the system and stop fermentation of undigested food, regulate the action of the liver, stimulate the nervous and organic ac tion of the system, and that is all they took when feeling dull aud bd with headaches and other aches. You only need a few doses of Green’s August Flower, in lignid form, to make you satisfied there is nothing serious the matter with you. Sample bottles at Winder Drug Cos.